Paavo Nurmi before track meet at Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925
Item Overview
- Title
- Paavo Nurmi before track meet at Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925
- Photographer
- Watson, George R., 1892-1977
- Date Created
- April 25, 1925
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Notes
- Description
-
Finnish track star Paavo Nurmi shakes hands with an unidentified man before his track meet at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
This photograph is related to the article, “Nurmi Thrills 45,000 Track Fans,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr 1925: A1. - Caption
-
Handwritten on negative: Paavo Nurmi
Text from negative sleeve: Nurmi, Paavo
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Subjects
-
Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles
Stadiums--California--Los Angeles - Names
-
Nurmi, Paavo, 1897-1973
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_6719
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cx09d
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
-
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.